THE NEXT BIG CLASS ACTION

From March 19, 2020 until its expiration in August there was Executive Order 20-06 prohibiting the initiation of residential eviction actions in Indiana. On March 27, 2020 I posted the featured article “The Governor’s Emergency Powers” with the view that Governor Holcomb was exceeding his authority with the torrent of “Emergency” Executive Orders. To its […]

IN DEFENSE OF PROFESSOR SELLERS

A former adjunct professor of law at Georgetown recently had her day of infamy. Her name is Sandra Sellers. Being an “adjunct” professor of law generally means that your teaching job is part-time and that you have an actual law practice or other legal field employment outside the university. That seems to have been the […]

MY TWO JABS

Within hours of the news release that I could register (by reason of age) for COVID-19 vaccination, I went onto my home computer and did so. The digital starting point for the task was the State of Indiana website (in.gov) or “ourshot.in.gov.” You could say that there were three steps, beginning with selection of a […]

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

“The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.” This frequently paraphrased quote is attributed to Hiram Johnson, a progressive Republican senator in California as commentary on World War I. Nearly identical versions of the thought are attributed to Samuel Johnson (around 1758) and Aeschylus (around 550 B.C.). An observation of the CLB is that truth […]

PROTEST AND ME

In the wake of the January 6th storming of the Capitol Building by an angry mob, here are some random thoughts that could be of interest. CROWDS. The Indy 500 race features the largest crowd of people (maybe 250,000) within my personal experience. Still, that crowd tends to be spread out over a large area […]

THE ACTING PRESIDENCY OF MICHAEL PENCE

Nevermind what is or is not most beneficial to the political future of Vice President Michael Pence. Our former Indiana governor has a sense of duty and the moral imperative to carry out such duty. The CLB urges the Vice President to convene a Cabinet meeting and to secure his own vote and that of […]

LEON ON THE LAM

Update: As predicted on December 16, 2020 in the final paragraph of this Article, Leon Taylor has been caught. He was taken into custody during the morning hours of December 30, 2020. As of this writing on December 16, 2020 Leon Taylor, 22 and a former Hammond resident, is a fugitive from law enforcement. According […]

THE HARMLESSNESS OF GROSS JUROR MISCONDUCT

On December 9, 2020 the SCOTSI handed down its unanimous ruling taking away the new (criminal) trial that had been granted by the COA. The CLB “guaranteed” in late February of this year a Transfer Petition following the split (2/1) COA decision to order a new trial for convicted murderer Clinton Loehrlein upon evidence that […]

THE BARRETT NOMINATION

This analysis begins in 2016 when Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in a Texas hunting lodge cabin. President Obama, then in the final year of his second (and final) term submitted to the Senate his nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland. Fast forward to September 18, 2020 and the death of […]

WHITE LIKE ME PART THREE: A JOB FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

It was a good 20 years or so ago when a local (Hammond) cop lived so near to me as within an adjacent block. There was often a “take-home” squad car in front of the officer’s residence. I took some comfort in that and assumed that the neighborhood was at least minimally safer by reason […]